TBESH · H6083
עָפָר · a.phar · dust
1) dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish 1a) dry or loose earth 1b) debris 1c) mortar 1d) ore
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a.phar H6083
עָפָר (a.phar) means “dust” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
עָפָר Hebrew · H6083 110 tagged occurrences in 103 verses
Pronunciation guide: aw-fawr' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H6080 (עָפַר); dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
KJV glosses: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
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How translators render H6083
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the dust | 19 |
| dust | 12 |
| in the dust | 11 |
| from the dust | 5 |
| like dust | 5 |
| like the dust | 3 |
| to the dust | 3 |
| as the dust | 2 |
| in the ground | 2 |
| of the dust | 2 |
| the soil | 2 |
| am but dust | 1 |
| and dust | 1 |
| and her soil | 1 |
| and out of the dust | 1 |
| and powder | 1 |
| and soil | 1 |
| and the dust | 1 |
| and the plaster | 1 |
| and their soil | 1 |
| are dust | 1 |
| are in the dust | 1 |
| as dust | 1 |
| as fine as dust | 1 |
| before the dust | 1 |
| containing flecks | 1 |
| dirt | 1 |
| earth | 1 |
| enough dust | 1 |
| from the earth | 1 |
| in the soil | 1 |
| it | 1 |
| it to powder | 1 |
| it with dirt | 1 |
| it with dust | 1 |
| its dust | 1 |
| mortar | 1 |
| of rubble | 1 |
| on her dust | 1 |
| out of the dust | 1 |
| plaster | 1 |
| rubble | 1 |
| siege ramps | 1 |
| some of the ashes | 1 |
| the earth | 1 |
| the sand | 1 |
| their ashes | 1 |
| their dust | 1 |
| to dust | 1 |
| to powder | 1 |
| when the dust | 1 |
| will be dust | 1 |
| will the dust | 1 |
| with dirt | 1 |
| your dust | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the dust | 12 |
| dust | 10 |
| in the dust | 9 |
| as the dust | 4 |
| of the dust | 4 |
| out of the dust | 4 |
| to the dust | 4 |
| and dust | 3 |
| and the dust | 2 |
| as dust | 2 |
| in dust | 2 |
| it with dust | 2 |
| of the earth | 2 |
| after the dust | 1 |
| all are of the dust | 1 |
| all the dust | 1 |
| also upon them as dust | 1 |
| and it hath dust | 1 |
| and of the dust | 1 |
| and out of the earth | 1 |
| and their dust | 1 |
| and thy dust | 1 |
| and unto dust | 1 |
| for dust | 1 |
| her dust | 1 |
| if the dust | 1 |
| in the ground | 1 |
| like the dust | 1 |
| me into dust | 1 |
| me into the dust | 1 |
| morter | 1 |
| of dust | 1 |
| of the ashes | 1 |
| of the rubbish | 1 |
| out of the earth | 1 |
| out the dust | 1 |
| rubbish | 1 |
| shall be as the dust | 1 |
| shall the dust | 1 |
| small to powder | 1 |
| the ashes | 1 |
| the powder | 1 |
| thee in the dust | 1 |
| thee out of the dust | 1 |
| them as small as the dust | 1 |
| them in dust | 1 |
| them in the dust | 1 |
| them like the dust | 1 |
| them small as the dust | 1 |
| them with earth | 1 |
| then shall the dust | 1 |
| thereof and all the morter | 1 |
| thyself from the dust | 1 |
| thyself in the dust | 1 |
| to dust | 1 |
| to powder | 1 |
| to their dust | 1 |
| unto dust | 1 |
| unto the dust | 1 |
| upon earth | 1 |
| upon the earth | 1 |
| when the dust | 1 |
| with him in the dust | 1 |
Verses containing H6083
Page 1 of 3. 103 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 2:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Read word by word - Genesis 3:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Read word by word - Genesis 3:19
· BSB · 2 occurrences
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Read word by word - Genesis 13:16
· BSB · 2 occurrences
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Read word by word - Genesis 18:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
Read word by word - Genesis 26:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Read word by word - Genesis 28:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Read word by word - Exodus 8:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.12
- Exodus 8:17
· BSB · 2 occurrences
This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.13
- Leviticus 14:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:42
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
Read word by word - Leviticus 17:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.
Read word by word - Numbers 5:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
Read word by word - Numbers 19:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
Read word by word - Numbers 23:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 9:21
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 32:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Read word by word - Joshua 7:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 2:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 16:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 22:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 16:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 13:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 1:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 4:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 3.34
- Nehemiah 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.4
- Job 2:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
Read word by word - Job 4:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Read word by word - Job 5:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Read word by word - Job 7:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
Read word by word - Job 7:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Read word by word - Job 8:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
Read word by word - Job 10:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Read word by word - Job 14:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
Read word by word - Job 14:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
Read word by word - Job 16:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
Read word by word - Job 17:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Read word by word - Job 19:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
Read word by word - Job 20:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
Read word by word - Job 21:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
Read word by word - Job 22:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Read word by word - Job 27:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
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